College UA Ruhr: Events

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Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken

13/11/2025, Essen | hybrid

Sweat has varying, partly contradictory cultural connotations. This workshop explores sweating in the context of cooling technologies, the media, and feminist infrastructures. The focus is on methodological, material and political questions: about skin, climate, affect, technology and textiles.

Treffen des CHANCEN-Verbunds: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung und Forschung für das Startchancen-Programm

18/11/2025 - 19/11/2025, Essen

Organiser: Kompetenzzentrum Multiprofessionelle Schulentwicklung im Sozialraum, University of Duisburg-Essen

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Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide

25/11/2025 - 26/11/2025, Essen

This transdisciplinary workshop challenges different approaches to social memories and collective identities in the context of genocidal social practices. It seeks to develop a nuanced understanding of memory and identity that goes beyond essentialised conceptions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.

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Deep Dive into ICCS 2022 – Advanced Data Analysis of Large-Scale Assessment Data in R

28/11/2025, Essen

This workshop offers (early-career) researchers the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the methodological foundations and the analysis of large-scale assessment data (in particular ICCS). It is organised by the Civic Education Research Lab, a PostdocLab working group.

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Workshop for Early-Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences

01/12/2025, Essen

This workshop gives early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to present their research projects and receive constructive feedback in an interdisciplinary setting.

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Ceremonial Opening | College for Social Sciences and Humanities

01/12/2025, Essen

Closed event – invited guests only

Founded in 2021 as part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities has taken shape as an Institute for Advanced Study, with a design that is unique in Germany: it brings together outstanding international visiting scholars, permanent research professors, and mid-career researchers ‘under one roof’. By the end of 2025, most of…

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Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture

04/12/2025 - 05/12/2025

How do Spanish literature, film, and culture represent perpetrators in the context of the Civil War and Franco Dictatorship? Building on the ‘Ordinary Men’ thesis, the conference explores the concepts of complicity, bystanding, and perpetration in Spanish cultural memory.

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The EU-Central-Asia Relations: Dynamics and Perspectives

25/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

This workshop will critically and comparatively examine the European Union’s and Central Asia’s bilateral and multilateral relations. Contributors will discuss regional and cross-regional challenges, interregional interdependence and connectivity, as well as soft and smart power issues.

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Queer AΦ Europe | Queer Analytic Philosophy: Social Concepts and Categories

16/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

Analytic philosophy is able, at its best, to untangle large and seemingly ineffable questions. Social ontology and conceptual engineering aim to analyse ordinary concepts and categories, such as gender, race, sexual orientation, identity, as well as social emotions. This conference presents work in analytic philosophy that focuses on the nature and properties of the social world.

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Heritage Language Education and Policy

05/06/2025 - 06/06/2025, Essen

This workshop aims to compare US and German approaches to bilingual education and heritage language teaching. It explores similarities and differences in order to identify common research areas and potential solutions for future generations’ language maintenance within the context of schooling and policies.

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Multisensory Approaches to Egyptian, Near Eastern and Aegean Bronze and Iron Age Palaces

02/06/2025 - 03/06/2025, Essen | hybrid

Multisensory archaeology focuses on sensory dimensions of archaeological sites, artifacts, and landscapes to reconstruct past human experiences. This workshop explores the potential of this approach for the study of palaces from the Bronze and Iron Age.

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Meeting of the Working Group 'Multipliers' | Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital

13/05/2025 - 14/05/2025, Essen

Organiser: Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital | University of Duisburg-Essen

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Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond

08/05/2025 - 09/05/2025, Essen

Does "memory culture" promote a healthy democracy? Can the USA – and other countries – learn from Germany’s decades-long experience of "working off" the Nazi past? This conference takes a comparative perspective on the practices of commemorating historical injustice in Germany, the USA and beyond.

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Artificial Intelligence and Educational Policies: Reconstructing Academic Frameworks

06/05/2025, Essen | hybrid

This lecture gives insights into the influence of emerging new technologies such as artificial intelligence on educational policies, learning processes and teaching settings. The speaker Muzaffer Özdemir, Professor of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey), argues that a human-centered approach to integrating AI is needed, where technology…

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Practices in the Archive of a Life / Lives

24/04/2025 - 25/04/2025, Bochum & Essen

How can artists’ lives, including their political engagement, be preserved through archiving? This workshop in cooperation with the queer-feminist archive LIESELLE brings together artists, archivists, curators, digital information networkers and others to share their practices and experiences.

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Civic Education Forum: Perspectives and Challenges in a Changing World

09/04/2025, Essen

How do individual dispositions, educational institutions, and social environments shape civic learning, participation, and attitudes? Two keynote lectures present findings on civic education from psychological and sociological research.

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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Postcolonial English Contexts (DVPEC)

06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025

English varieties spoken in African, Asian, and Caribbean multilingual societies are influenced by ethnic languages and cultures of the respective regions, leading to variation in the use of discourse-pragmatic features. This workshop brings together international linguistics scholars to discuss different theoretical approaches and methodologies in the field.

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Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken

Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken

Treffen des CHANCEN-Verbunds: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung und Forschung für das Startchancen-Programm

Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide

Deep Dive into ICCS 2022 – Advanced Data Analysis of Large-Scale Assessment Data in R

Workshop for Early-Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Ceremonial Opening | College for Social Sciences and Humanities

Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture

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Past Events

The EU-Central-Asia Relations: Dynamics and Perspectives

Queer AΦ Europe | Queer Analytic Philosophy: Social Concepts and Categories

Heritage Language Education and Policy

Multisensory Approaches to Egyptian, Near Eastern and Aegean Bronze and Iron Age Palaces

Meeting of the Working Group 'Multipliers' | Kompetenzverbund lernen:digital

Cultures of Memory, Amnesia and Misprision: Germany, the US and Beyond

Artificial Intelligence and Educational Policies: Reconstructing Academic Frameworks

Practices in the Archive of a Life / Lives

Civic Education Forum: Perspectives and Challenges in a Changing World

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Postcolonial English Contexts (DVPEC)

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